This appeared in the Toronto Star’s Liv­ing sec­tion on Sat­ur­day, March 22, 2008.

MIAMI — Jamie Oliver, wear­ing a fit­ted short-sleeved shirt and jeans, emerges from behind the scenes and is greeted with a bar­rage of screams, whis­tles and applause.

His face is flushed. Hot in every sense of the word, this adorable British chef with the Mock­ney accent and pen­chant for “easy-peasy” cui­sine wipes his brow with a tea towel.  Read more…

Being snowed in, as I was last Sat­ur­day, can be a good thing. On this occa­sion, cook­ing seemed like the ideal way to spend the day inside as I watched the blan­ket of snow reach sev­eral feet high out­side my kitchen win­dow.  Read more…

SOUTH BEACH, Fla. — Lee Schrager, the ener­getic fel­low who founded the annual South Beach Wine and Food fes­ti­val seven years ago, is one smart cookie.  Read more…

 Here’s my arti­cle from The Toronto Star, Feb­ru­ary 23, 2008, that I wrote about Acorn House after a recent visit to the U.K.

“Acorn House is the most impor­tant restau­rant to open in Lon­don in 200 years,” Giles Coren, The Times mag­a­zine (Decem­ber, 2006).